Blizzard STILL gets revenues for the content they make by selling the orginal game and expansions. This is NOT a free to play game and they don't need to fight your "inflation" with in game cashstore.

OK, let's straighten this out with a basic fact check: what is the total inflation rate in the US from 2004 to 2013? If you can't answer this question, your knowledge of economy is not worth mentioning or discussing.

Originally Posted by Duster505

Im not missing a single fact here. It seems that you have forgotten that WOW has payed for much of the TITAN development and those devs working on that game as well. I think its just about time that the subscribers that are paying for WOW get their full worth of the sub put back into the game.

What is "full worth of sub" supposed to mean? If you don't raid heroic mode, do you get "full worth of the sub"? By your logic, you don't since there are items you don't have access to. Same question for rated PVP.

Originally Posted by Duster505

And lastly ... Ye I bought a poster .... But I was not charged monthly fee by a greedy company

Nah, you only had crappy sequels and a lot more merchandises to buy. Oh yeah, and the VHS/DVD of the movie, let's not forget about it.

Firstly, WHO define the rule that "if you are P2P, then you are not allowed to have a cash shop"?

There isn't.

You may not like it, but, if they can pull it off, and make money with it, I don't see why they wouldn't. A lot of the P2P that turned F2P games out there, you don't think they will do the same if they can pull it off without half the players leaving?

Making money is pretty much always the #1 priority with companies, if I have something that I know people will pay for it even if I abuse it, you bet I am going to milk every one of you dry.

OK, let's straighten this out with a basic fact check: what is the total inflation rate in the US from 2004 to 2013? If you can't answer this question, your knowledge of economy is not worth mentioning or discussing.

What is "full worth of sub" supposed to mean? If you don't raid heroic mode, do you get "full worth of the sub"? By your logic, you don't since there are items you don't have access to. Same question for rated PVP.

Nah, you only had crappy sequels and a lot more merchandises to buy. Oh yeah, and the VHS/DVD of the movie, let's not forget about it.

Stop making up your "facts". Blizzard is no longer making the vanilla content. But its still making them money. Stop acting like some sort of "inflation" is affecting that development work. You simply dont have a clue what your talking about.

Full worth of sub means that you get get the money you pay for the game INTO that game but not into other games and their development. Every moron in the world can go and look at the cost that is put into WOW and then the revenues from the subs.

And you are avoiding the issue that pretty much everyone can see here. Its OK for a F2P cash shop to add another poster or "VHS" tape into their game cause those games are NOT charging ppl for login in to the game in the first place. There is no grey line there. There is not a single other game out there that both charges for items and then forces you to pay a sub to just log into the game. Not one. And THATS a FACT !

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Originally Posted by Grym

Firstly, WHO define the rule that "if you are P2P, then you are not allowed to have a cash shop"?

There isn't.

You may not like it, but, if they can pull it off, and make money with it, I don't see why they wouldn't. A lot of the P2P that turned F2P games out there, you don't think they will do the same if they can pull it off without half the players leaving?

Making money is pretty much always the #1 priority with companies, if I have something that I know people will pay for it even if I abuse it, you bet I am going to milk every one of you dry.

There is no rule... but no company in the world has been so stupid this far to show such disrespect to a paying consumer to then charge them extra for being able to use those items.

Making money is not always the #1 priority of companies. It is #1 for greedy companies that dont respect paying consumers. If they can make more profit of it.... doesn't mean they aren't scumbags for doing it.

So lets see... Good example of a company that could go the same route and start to charge SUB as well as charging for items also... Lets take STEAM for example. You buy the game and then charged 15$ per month for login into them. That would be very unethical to do ... but they would probably get away with it. But STEAM shows abit more respect to their paying consumers than that..... Even tho Blizzard doesn't.

Different colour. It is not a sparkly effect. It is actual lightning/clouds. See you don't even know what you are talking about, so how can you comment?

no, no it is not a different colour. it is the red cloud serpent with a small lightning effect added. its the exact same mount as the august celestials mount only red. you are the one who dont know what you are talking about

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Stop making up your "facts". Blizzard is no longer making the vanilla content. But its still making them money. Stop acting like some sort of "inflation" is affecting that development work. You simply dont have a clue what your talking about.

Answer the basic question about inflation rate first. If you're unable to do that, then you have no clue about what you're talking about because you're unable to combine some numbers.

Originally Posted by Duster505

Full worth of sub means that you get get the money you pay for the game INTO that game but not into other games and their development.

And NO company on this planet does that. A part of the revenue goes into developing new products, otherwise it becomes a dead company. Unless you imagined otherwise? Well, then it only shows your lack of clue.

Originally Posted by Duster505

And you are avoiding the issue that pretty much everyone can see here. Its OK for a F2P cash shop to add another poster or "VHS" tape into their game cause those games are NOT charging ppl for login in to the game in the first place. There is no grey line there. There is not a single other game out there that both charges for items and then forces you to pay a sub to just log into the game. Not one. And THATS a FACT !

Really? Well, phone companies certainly do charge you a fee and then make you pay for apps and the phone. Will you make up some other "fact" to counter that?

Answer the basic question about inflation rate first. If you're unable to do that, then you have no clue about what you're talking about because you're unable to combine some numbers.

And NO company on this planet does that. A part of the revenue goes into developing new products, otherwise it becomes a dead company. Unless you imagined otherwise? Well, then it only shows your lack of clue.

Really? Well, phone companies certainly do charge you a fee and then make you pay for apps and the phone. Will you make up some other "fact" to counter that?

Phone companies do not own those apps or the phones. You can STILL use your phones and apps you bought even if you move from one phone company to another.

Blizzard owns both their servers and the "apps". You once again show total lack of understanding what you are talking about

BREAKING NEWS! A company is trying to make money and people do NOT like that! pack your pitchforks and lets protest about this!

That's an incredibly naive argument. You don't have to put up with a company's business practice. Vote with your wallet but never accept that a company is trying to make business at your expense without evaluating the service. You are not looking at the bigger picture here.

That's an incredibly naive argument. You don't have to put up with a company's business practice. Vote with your wallet but never accept that a company is trying to make business at your expense without evaluating the service. You are not looking at the bigger picture here.

Ye - Totally agree with this. Paying consumers should be aware of company's business practice. And its pretty obvious that the current practice from Blizzard is shady to say the least compared to what other games and companies have been doing with their payment models.

People quitting over this are just dumb. I see nothing wrong with it at all even though I wouldn't have one of those helms if they paid ME.

I don't think WoW will ever go F2P but the notion that doing so is "where MMO's go to die" is just not true. LOTRO did it a while back and their revenues tripled and the sub base actually went up. They are very healthy and still turning out new content and expansions. That game, a fine one btw, has much more active servers than before. They do offer ways to buy the store items without paying real money though and that is the way to go. If you pay the sub cost, you get free store purchase points every month and you also get points for things you complete in the game. If you choose F2P you only get the points through your actions in game or purchasing more in the store. The only thing purchasable for real money are the Turbine points you use to buy store items but as I said, they can also be obtained in other ways.

Blizzard owns both their servers and the "apps". You once again show total lack of understanding what you are talking about

And how does it change something? You still have to pay for the phone, the sub for the line and the apps.
Moreover, a phone without a sub and apps does not work. But WoW without all those cosmetic items works just fine.

There is no rule... but no company managed to do the same without losing 90% of their sub.

Now that is more like it.

And if STEAM will charge a monthly fee as well as buying the game, I simply stop using Steam, and probably a lot of people too.

While you may say, a lot of people will also quit WoW too because of this, well, let's see. Historic data pretty much show Blizzard can add anything (as long as non power related) people will happily pay for it on top of their sub.

Until people start complaining with their wallet, Blizzard probably will keep doing this.

People quitting over this are just dumb. I see nothing wrong with it at all even though I wouldn't have one of those helms if they paid ME.

I don't think WoW will ever go F2P but the notion that doing so is "where MMO's go to die" is just not true. LOTRO did it a while back and their revenues tripled and the sub base actually went up. They are very healthy and still turning out new content and expansions. That game, a fine one btw, has much more active servers than before. They do offer ways to buy the store items without paying real money though and that is the way to go. If you pay the sub cost, you get free store purchase points every month and you also get points for things you complete in the game. If you choose F2P you only get the points through your actions in game or purchasing more in the store. The only thing purchasable for real money are the Turbine points you use to buy store items but as I said, they can also be obtained in other ways.

True... other MMO games have store but none of them is both charging for items and then charging you for login in. Thats where alot of ppl will put down their foot. Specially if Blizzard is putting in an ingame store.

Games like LOTRO give players OPTIONS on how to play and if they spend money. Blizzard is not doing that with their system by the looks of things. They are making sure you have to pay for both items and then pay the sub and you have zero means to do anything else. Thats the unethical part about their model and shows total lack of respect in my opinion.

I find it kind of hilarious that people are freaking out and threatening to quit over three transmog helms that are frankly quite ugly.

Also: do any of you guys who are threatening to quit hate the fact that the BMAH offers heroic raiding gear periodically? Because if you're gonna quit over pay to win...welp...that's in game pay to win right there, and you never mention it.

Blizzard has had a cash shop for in game items since Wrath. Thus far they've not offered anything with an in game advantage, and the things datamined to be in game advantages in 5.4 are going to a market with a totally different subscription model. Do you think you guys could stop with the "THEY OFFERED X, THAT MEANS NEXT IS BUYING YOUR HEROIC RAID GEAR" crap until they, you know, ACTUALLY DO IT?

Alot of the complaints I see here are due to the fact that they believe this takes away from development time for subscription content, but honestly.... we are seeing more content added to the game now than at any point in the games history (the pace of content I mean). Nothing has been taken away from the core game, you have more than ever before. This is EXTRA development, for EXTRA cash, if you don't like it, speak with your wallet and don't buy it.

The slippery slope argument is kind of unfounded too imo, there is a HUGE difference between offering cosmetic/convenience items and offering player power, and Blizzard knows this (That being said, if WoW ever did become pay2win I'd be right beside you grabbing my pitchfork :P)

True... other MMO games have store but none of them is both charging for items and then charging you for login in. Thats where alot of ppl will put down their foot. Specially if Blizzard is putting in an ingame store.

Blizzard have charged us sub, AND paid services, AND store mounts, for how long?

They have been doing this and got away with this for ages. And as long as they can get away with it, and with people still subbing, I don't see why any company wouldn't do it.

Instead of creating this shit, how about new character models? I actually feel like they lied to us about character models and aren't even working on them, mark my words. These transmogrification helmets actually need to bought... another step downhill into the grand canyon of shite. Blizzard are shitty little idiots who want nothing but money. I'm not saying they're ugly, but this is just becoming ridiculous.

Next major step for Blizzard: casual players can now instantly become level 90 with full epic gear for only $19,99!

Blizzard have charged us sub, AND paid services, AND store mounts, for how long?

They have been doing this and got away with this for ages. And as long as they can get away with it, and with people still subbing, I don't see why any company wouldn't do it.

Well... Blizzard has been loosing subs for last 4 years. 1/3rd of the playerbase has left. The reaction from BLizzard is pretty obvious. It's time to milk those that are going to continue to pay sub as much as possible until they leave. Its seems pretty obvious they are not going to be able to stop the bleed. And they even went as far as admitting that in the last quarterly report.